Off to the United States today for a month. Visiting Mitchell in Houston.

This is our first international flight in four years. COVID interrupted travel has kept us on the ground. The joys of airports abound in having to get there three hours before take off, participating in the technological revolution of contactless checking in, a long wait in a queue if there is some issue that the machine can’t cope with, like multiple stops on the way to the destination.

Then there is of course the need for a tea and coffee and some overpriced raisin toast to fill in some time before the plane opens its doors. On the other hand getting through security and border control was a breeze! Now sitting at the gate with an hour to go.

Before Houston we are heading for Memphis to join a paddle wheeler on the lower Mississippi River down to New Orleans for seven days. One of those bucket list trips. It will be worth the airline tucker to get to Memphis, going to take about 30 hours including stopovers in Auckland and Chicago.

Graceland and Elvis in Memphis ……..here we come!